By Dan Nonte, University Relations
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Dr. Celia Hooper, a UNCG professor, has been elected president of the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
The head of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Hooper will serve a year as the council’s president-elect, a year as president and a year as past-president. Her duties as president include serving as spokesperson and advocate for academic programs in CSD to other individuals, agencies and organizations.
Founded in 1979, the council represents more than 2,000 members affiliated with more than 250 programs that educate undergraduate and graduate students in communication sciences and disorders. Its members work in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Important issues that the Council is addressing in the coming years include an examination of academic training needs in audiology, speech-language pathology, and speech and hearing sciences; a need for increased research support in CSD; and solutions to the critical doctoral shortage in CSD.
Prior to joining UNCG in 2003, she was on the faculty at UNC Chapel Hill, the University of Kansas and Case Western Reserve University. She has served a three-year term as vice president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
At UNCG, she is leading the planning for a doctoral program in CSD and has established the Applied Communicative Sciences Laboratory, where undergraduate, masters and doctoral students from several departments conduct research related to speaking and singing.
For more information on the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders call (336) 334-5184.
